Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zookeeper feeling the whiskers that cover an Asian elephant’s trunk. To examine how the elephant trunk whiskers work, engineers ...

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...

After nearly going extinct, elephant seals are a conservation success story. Elephant seals are being used as nature's artificial intelligence to monitor the health of the oceans -- especially the ...

Forest elephants, true to the name, spend their lives hidden in the rainforest, which is a problem if you study them. PETER WREGE: We basically have no idea what they're doing, how they're using the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Family of African Bush Elephants taking a mud bath in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya.© I, Mgiganteus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia ...

An elephant takes part in a test trial where the human’s body and face are directed towards the animal. Kyoto, Japan -- With their massive flapping ears and long trunks, it isn't hard to believe that ...